Archive for September, 2009

How far will you go when selling 2nd hand goods.

Recently, I sold some old junk. More specifically a old dual P3 compaq proliant with 1gb ECC ram.

My new seedbox (old PC before the i7) runs more quiet and has been very stable in the sense of uptimes.
Anway back to the story bascially I sold this server for $12, and I have encountered the most annoying buy ever. He wants to do a RAID format and install on the SCSI drives.

The question is how far would one go when selling old junk like this for a miserable $12. Some options would be to throw this scrap metal on inorganic disposal day. Lose $12 and lose some stress…

So I got my hands on an i7

Was reading the reviews on it and just couldn’t resist crazy speeds. The HT bottleneck was fixed apparently and yes it is fast really fast!!.

Hold on!!. There is some ANNOYING problems with the clocking your ram on X85 chipsets therefore across all brands your damn RAM specifically OCZ and some say gel dont run at their desired speed.

So as what most people would do, that is manually adjust. The thing hands and throws tandtrums and doesnt stay true. I dunnnnnno whats going on it is a pain!, just wait for the latest bios updates :D

Solution

Well as all of us may think that our clock times ARE NOT working they are!. It is all on false pretenses of using Everest to check our latency. I recommed using CPUZ-ID and you will realise that the SPD on the OCZs are kind of screwed up so INDEED you do need to set them manually.

I noticed a HUGEE speed improvement in terms of loading windows so I know the timings were a lot better and bandwith increased. Checked everest they were the same, but then I checked using CPUZ turns out they are right :)

Note: Make sure your voltages on your RAM is sufficent to do your clock speeds if you starve them of power it tends to screw up.